BODY IMAGE Poem: The Troxler Effect in the Age of Industrial Fetish, by Kiplet Christian

Burst! it spurts and oozes, drenching my corpus in thin translucent mucus.
Emetic delight! the outer flesh peels back engulfing me inside-out, how warm and piercing my new
exoskeleton is.
Industrial actualization! sticky black smoke expresses out my ten thousand pores.
Now slice through the middle and peel up a polygonal doorway,
shovel out the catarrh and begin your descent down the oldest spiral,
an infinite mouth that holds the logos
in its gnawing aureole —
Then colonize that void with a new CPU.

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By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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